08-18-2020, 08:07 PM
(08-15-2020, 08:11 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(08-15-2020, 04:18 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Former Illinois Governor James ThompsonJim Thompson also outed fellow Republican Spiro Agnew following his fall from grace, referring to him as a crook the country is well rid of. This following his quasi-forced resignation as Vice President over a kickback scandal when he was Governor of Maryland.
James Robert Thompson Jr. (May 8, 1936 – August 14, 2020), also known as Big Jim Thompson, was the 37th and longest-serving governor of the US state of Illinois,[1] serving from 1977 to 1991. A Republican, Thompson was elected to four consecutive terms and held the office for 14 years. Many years after leaving public office, he served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission).
Considering the troubled Governors who have succeeded him... that seems extremely ironic now. Taking Agnew out -- that was a big deed. We could use more pols like him. A successful 4T weeds out the moral cowards from public life... maybe even academia and Big Business.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.